Stairs I

Collage, watercolor pencil/Giclée prints
Portals and Stairs Series   1997-2006

This work reflects my long-standing interest in the symbolic nature of doors, window, and  stairs, what lies beyond them, and whether one chooses to go through, up, or down to another place.  With the absence of human figures in these scenes, it is the viewer who is invited to "enter" and move through the space.  It is the viewer's imagined choices and emotions that activate each piece.

With the use of giclée prints, I began to explore working with multiples.  Three Stairs, Nine Times is the piece in which I first began playing with the concept of flipping and rotating reality, and watching the new patterns that emerged.  I also introduced images of game pieces as human surrogates.